“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.”
– Bill Gates
“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.”
– Bill Gates
“Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.”
– Bill Gates
“Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.”
– Bill Gates
“I spend a lot of time reading.”
– Bill Gates
“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.”
– Bill Gates
“In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.”
– Bill Gates
“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.”
– Bill Gates
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
– Bill Gates
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.”
– Bill Gates
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
– Bill Gates
“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.”
– Bill Gates
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
– Bill Gates
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
– Bill Gates
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
– Bill Gates
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
– Bill Gates
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.”
– Bill Gates
“Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.”
– Bill Gates
“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.”
– Bill Gates
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
– Bill Gates
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
– Bill Gates
“A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.”
– Bill Gates
“Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.”
– Bill Gates
“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”
– Bill Gates
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
– Bill Gates
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
– Bill Gates
“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.”
– Bill Gates
“I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?”
– Bill Gates
“We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.”
– Bill Gates
“People everywhere love Windows.”
– Bill Gates